Yesterday I thought i'd finally get off my ass about fitness since coming back to Sydney and joined up for a trial Pilates lesson down the road. After the obligatory introduction in which I got acquainted to a contraption called the 'Reformer' (which incidentally sounds very much like something you would find in prison) I attended the class.
There were about 6 of us at the time, and we went through what I was later told was an 'easy' class. I'd hate to see what the hard ones are like. It wasn't all THAT hard, but my body was relatively unused to the positions required to perform certain exercises so most of my workout went into maintaining proper posture and core position. The Reformer itself was an interesting and deceptively simple machine. A set of springs and be loaded or unloaded onto an adjustable board which essentially controls not only the resistance for certain exercises, but also help to stabilize a sliding portion of the machine to help the user maintain proper positioning.
After the 45 minute class I quickly showered and headed into the city for Trivia Night with Kara and co. Man, what a beating. It was harder than the Pilates class! Questions included extremely obscure ones such as "What is the most visited paid monument in the world?", and "In what century was the first aerated, carbonated drink produced". Stumped? So were we. Incidentally we got both of those answers correct simply by guessing. The Eiffel Tower, and the 19th century (I think). Needless to say, at first the team wasn't having much fun. We did manage to pull out some last minute stops to climb the charts and rest comfortably in fourth place. Believe me, we thought we would be dead last for the longest time. By the end of it, the comments had changed from "I'll never do this here again", to "Let's take on the top team next time". Since the trivia nights are held fortnightly at this particular venue, we're pretty confident that a spot of reading will help us climb the ladder further.
Either way, it looks like the Tiki Team (do NOT ask me about that) will be returning.
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It's nice to know that not only will you be tested physically by the pilates workout, but also mentally by the trivia thingy you seem to have going on. In other news, word verification is still a pain in the behind.
There, should be off now.
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